The one tech-ish presidential candidate, Carly Fiorina, is out of the running.

That wasn’t a surprise, but for Silicon Valley folks, there won’t likely be another familiar face on the stump this year.

It’s not just U.S. politics. The Europeans want to tax tech’s profits sitting overseas. Indian regulators ruled last week to ban Facebook’s Free Basics, its limited but free Internet service.

Tech, we’re not as cool as we used to be.

How bad is it? Tech leaders like Marc Andreessen can’t tech-splain like they used to.

Last week, Andreessen, a prominent investor and co-founder of Netscape, got schooled by his pal Mark Zuckerberg when he complained about “anti-colonialism” in India. Zuckerberg said he was “deeply offended” by Andreessen’s tweets.

It’s quite an adjustment. Silicon Valley is now considered part of America’s elite, just like other industries. Its rock star CEOs and VCs, once rebel avatars from the future, are seen as part of the establishment. (Ouch.)

Over the past few decades, tech and Silicon Valley have come to personify the future — what was possible, what might be coming down the pike. But now?

What tech is “creating scares the hell out of Middle America,” said Alec Ross, who served as senior adviser for innovation to Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state. “Middle America is full of anxiety. Silicon Valley contributes to that anxiety. It doesn’t reduce that anxiety.”

People are wondering if “what is being created is causing displacement,” said Ari Wallach, the founder and CEO of Synthesis Corp., a New York City-based strategic consultancy. “That is causing some people to outweigh the gee-whiz factor.”

Ross, who has traveled the country to research his new book, “Industries of the Future,” pointed to voter anger that presidential candidates Trump and Bernie Sanders have successfully tapped into.

That is a far cry from 1992, when Bill Clinton rode the Silicon Valley endorsement to the White House. It’s probably not the time for a presidential hopeful to tap a tech billionaire to play surrogate. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio probably doesn’t want to risk his GOP opponent Donald Trump calling Rubio “Mark Zuckerberg’s senator” again.

“Tech is being accused of killing jobs, not hiring minorities, offshoring jobs, violating privacy and focusing on ‘cat videos,’ ” said Rob Atkinson, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. “I don’t agree with these assertions, but times are definitely different.”

Tim O’Reilly, founder and chief executive of O’Reilly Media and a longtime Silicon Valley observer, recently tussled, as did many others, with Paul Graham, the co-founder of tech incubator Y Combinator, who wrote a defense of startups in the context of income inequality.

“There is a tech backlash,” O’Reilly said. “We have to actually stand up and be responsible. Having a very insular point of view doesn’t come across well and doesn’t serve the country well.”

Given that the bloom is off the tech rose, what should tech leaders do? Hide? Stay off Twitter?

No. It’s good to air as many ideas about the future as possible. But this is the year for the industry and its leaders to break a lifetime habit of presupposing they know what’s best for the country and world, and listen hard to what people say they need.

In other words, get outside of the bubble.

“We need more respect in our conversations across borders and more recognition that there are worthy debates to be had, for example, around issues like limits on free speech, as well as more humility, which was the opposite of what was exhibited in that exchange around Andreessen’s tweets,” said Irina Raicu, director of Internet ethics at Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.

That’s a good idea. And another one: Start talking about how to make the world we want, business models for the 100 percent, not just cool products for just a few.

Michelle Quinn is a former business columnist for the Bay Area News Group. Prior to that, she was the Silicon Valley correspondent at Politico covering tech policy and politics. She has also covered the tech industry at the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. She was a blogger for the New York Times.